Joan Mott
Joan Mott was an English physiologist and zoologist. She worked for most of her career at the University of Oxford's Nuffield Institute for Medical Research and was a founding fellow and Vicegerent of Wolfson College, Oxford.
Biography
Mott was born on 9 January 1921 at Parkstone, Dorset. She was educated Cheltenham Ladies' College and then studied at Newnham College, University of Cambridge.Mott worked for the majority of her career at the University of Oxford's Nuffield Institute for Medical Research. Following wartime work on anti-fouling of ships her main research interest was in the circulatory system, especially the fetal renin–angiotensin system. She studied the breathing movements in nephrectomised lamb foetuses and tested the response to haemorrhaging in altricial species and the otprecocial species. She was Secretary of the Neonatal Society from 1963 to 1967.
Mott was a founding fellow of and Vicegerent of Wolfson College, Oxford.
Mott died on 21 April 1994 at Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire.
The biennial Joan Mott Prize Lecture Celebrating Women Physiologists, hosted by The Physiological Society, is named in her honour. The event was established in 1995 and is funded by a bequest from her will.